“Zach is home from college,” Phil texted. “He’ll be cooking lunch on Monday if you want to swing by.” Everyone knows you never pass up an invitation to Terra Spice. In the test kitchen, Zach prepared soup, bread, and cookies for lunch while we chatted about his time working with Phil before he left for college. 

Earlier this year, Phil offered to cook for a whisky tasting club at Terra Spice. “We pair wine with food all the time,” he said. “But I’ve never done a whisky pairing. Why not give it a shot?”

When Philip left the restaurant twenty-two years ago to start Terra Spice, Peter of Chicago Game & Gourmet was one of our first customers. Now, decades later, the two still work together and operate their businesses with a similar philosophy.

Here at Terra Spice, we orient our work in the rhythm of the kitchen with our daily practice of family meal. Some days this means a quick lunch for our staff with subs and cold cuts, other times we prepare a feast.